Word: fairer
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...work began to go sour. His own fireman called him a company man. When he asked about resigning from the Employee Plan, his superintendent said: "I'm overlooking this little trouble you had, but I expect you to stay on the committee." And so on-no neater or fairer study of labor relations has been made. Author Nichols moves all over the plant. But the pivotal symbol of the book is Pressure Stillman Gus Hammer, in whom, as his stills and his lifetime's skill become hopelessly outmoded, courage and dependability gradually degrade into sad, senile little tricks...
...year whose big achievement raised a proportionately big challenge. Business did not assume that war's end would automatically bring, as in 1918, a return to old-style competitive capitalism. But it could assume that peace could yield a fairer chance of re-establishing a healthy U.S. economy, based primarily on private initiative, than had been offered in years. For somewhere along the road to war a new spirit had been born, new hopes aroused and an old assurance reasserted itself. And business had acquired too much responsibility over the present not to have to make a decisive choice...
...Churchill Pere knows he is too old to win both the war and the peace.] You and I are the English-speaking peoples, and the doughboy who came to the dance last night. It will be YOUR responsibility and MINE and HIS to see that the world becomes a fairer . . . place. . . . It won't be enough to go back [home after the war] and let the world go hang...
...past was so easy that 89 out of the 90 Harvard men who took it passed with flying colors. It consisted mainly of choice questions, forcing the perplexed undergraduate to decide whether two times three equals five or seven. It is hoped that this new examination will be a fairer measure of intelligence, but whether it is used as a standard test depends mainly on the results of Monday night. Failure in it will in no way be held against anyone who may later aspire to a position in the Air Corps...
...where U.S. soldiers are now breathing the air of England. On the record of World War II, the one great British success has been in the defense of Britain. It is easy to say-as many people said last week-that the British lack the offensive spirit. It is fairer and more realistic to say that 20th-century Britons fight best when home is the stake...